climate change Archives

October 25, 2024 Environment

World on Track for Dangerous 3.1°C Warming Without Urgent Action, UN Warns

G20 economies must accelerate efforts, boosting clean energy investment sixfold and aligning policies to limit warming to 1.5°C, says UN.

October 19, 2024 Environment

World’s Largest Coral Bleaching Event Unfolds Amid Climate Crisis

Around 77% of global reefs are affected by rising ocean temperatures, says NOAA, driven by climate change and marine heatwaves.

October 9, 2024 Environment / Insight

A Century in the Making? Hurricanes in Florida and Global Warming’s Wrath

Climate change, driven by human activity, is intensifying hurricanes by warming the seas and fueling more extreme weather events.

May 8, 2023 Interviews

Spain’s Proportional Representation System Is Outrageous and Must Be Changed: Yolanda Morales Pérez

PACMA spokesperson says Spain’s government is all talk and no action on a range of issues, and that bullfighting may be on the way out.

November 15, 2022 Commentary

Highway to Hell? Record 8 Billion People on Overburdened Earth

Self-important delegates are jetting into Egypt to talk about climate change, but the only thing they’re adding to the debate is more CO2.

September 4, 2022 Commentary

Pakistan’s Catastrophic Floods Show Climate Deniers Are Deluded

No country is immune from the devastating effects of climate change — and the global warming facts are there for all to see.

August 14, 2022 Reportage / Travel

Writing and Running in Storms

A sojuourn to a remote Canary village, to finish a book and continue training for a marathon, opens up disturbing vistas of human life.

November 9, 2021 News

‘Action on Climate, But Don’t Ask Us to Change’, People Say

By William J. Furney As the battered climate change talks in Scotland drag into another soggy week and many lose interest in what environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has already dismissed

October 31, 2021 Commentary

COP On: After 25 Climate Change Conferences, the World Is Worse Off

By William J. Furney With the leader of the world’s most polluting country snubbing the climate change conference now under way in Scotland, as it helps to fast-destroy our planet

September 26, 2021 Commentary

Grow Up! Chides Boris, as World Faces Climate Apocalypse

By William J. Furney His reference to a frog puppet may not exactly have been ribbiting, but Boris Johnson surely sent many people hopping mad with his lecture at the

September 5, 2020 Commentary

Stop the Presses! Before We Become Extinct

By William J. Furney Britain’s daily newspapers were forced to apologise to their readers this weekend because they might not be able to enjoy their morning read, due to environmental

October 5, 2019 Commentary / International Affairs

Courageous Greta Thunberg Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

By William J. Furney Whether Greta Thunberg wins the Nobel Peace Prize next week for her environmental campaigning is irrelevant — because the Swedish organisation with its money from the